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Tag Arterial gas embolism
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Decompression Sickness

Decompression sickness, is a form of decompression illness, where a reduction in ambient pressure ('decompression') leads to de no intravascular and extravascular bubble formation with pathological consequences
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Vascular Gas Embolism

Vascular gas embolism (VGE) is the entrainment of air (or exogenously delivered gas) from a communication with the environment into the venous or arterial vasculature, producing systemic effects.